Senior AI Security Engineer — Secure-by-Design AI

Firmus Technologies; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Firmus Technologies, a global leader in AI infrastructure, seeks a Senior AI Security Engineer to secure AI products and applications. You will collaborate with AI engineers, product managers, and platform teams to embed security controls into agentic workflows, RAG, and model-serving APIs, while aligning with enterprise security strategy.

This role emphasizes secure design, risk management, and incident response, reporting to the Head of AI & Applications, with dotted-line to the Head of

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in security engineering, application security, cloud security, platform security, or a related field.
• Experience embedding security practices into software teams and delivering secure releases.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, container security, CI/CD, SBOMs, and security automation.

Responsibilities

• Define secure-by-design architectures for AI-powered products and services.
• Threat-model LLM-enabled workflows and secure agentic runtimes.
• Design identity, access controls, and authorization patterns for AI applications.
• Secure RAG and enterprise-knowledge workflows and data handling.
• Lead security telemetry, detections, and incident response for AI products.

Skills

Security engineering

Application security

Cloud security

Platform security

Threat modeling

Python

Go

Kubernetes

CI/CD

SBOMs

Tools

Kubernetes

Container security

CI/CD pipelines

SBOM management

Job description

Firmus Technologies, a global leader in AI infrastructure, seeks a Senior AI Security Engineer to secure AI products and applications. You will collaborate with AI engineers, product managers, and platform teams to embed security controls into agentic workflows, RAG, and model-serving APIs, while aligning with enterprise security strategy.

This role emphasizes secure design, risk management, and incident response, reporting to the Head of AI & Applications, with dotted-line to the Head of